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Julie Diebolt Price's avatar

Please add to this:

1) Do not eat during a Zoom meeting, particularly when you lean into the screen. No one, and I mean NO ONE, wants to watch you chew your food.

2) Do not move around excessively during the meeting. It is distracting.

3) Turn off your camera if you must get up from your seat (carrying your phone or laptop with you), blow (or pick) your nose, yawn, or otherwise make distracting movements.

These are some of my pet peeves, Lydia, in case you couldn't tell.

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Elizabeth H. Cottrell's avatar

These are terrific reminders, Lydia. As a bank board chair who had to navigate many meetings during COVID, I find virtual meetings lacking in quality, primarily because it’s harder to read body language and many participants are less likely to speak up in a virtual meeting. But’s virtual meetings are not going away, so we do need to focus on how to make them as productive as possible.

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Lydia Ramsey's avatar

Elizabeth, thank you for confirming my thoughts about the etiquette of virtual meetings. You certainly speak from experience. We stumbled onto virtual meetings en masse during Covid. Covid has, for the most part, gone away, but virtual meetings are here to stay>

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